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  • noun See the quotation.

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  • A word coined by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham that means "the art of destroying noxious animals." From phi and theta (when combined connoting destruction), and zoa, living ones.

    October 18, 2007

  • It's an art??

    October 18, 2007